Labor Waste

 

Julia Gillard’s ‘Malaysian Solution’ is likely to place a further burden on taxpayers:

Taxpayers will fork out more than $50,000 for every refugee the Federal Government plans to bring to Australia from Malaysia under its new plan to stop illegal boat arrivals.

But they will have to pay more than $90,000 for every asylum seeker the Government now rejects.

The financial burden of the Gillard Government’s $292 million “Malaysian Solution” will not be the only Immigration blowout in tomorrow’s federal Budget.

The Government is facing a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars to pay in part for a 1000 per cent increase in immigration staff employed to deal with boat arrivals in the past 18 months.

Department of Immigration figures reveal the number of processing staff in detention facilities to deal with boat arrivals has risen from 71 in 2009 to a staggering 709.

Read the rest here: Taxpayers to shoulder Julia Gillard’s ‘Malaysian Solution’ | Herald Sun.

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